The Financial Diet: YouTube show, one of Hank's newest video projects (2015)
project history · status: last documented in 2019 (looked back on in 2023) · last event: milestone (2019-05-14) · last mentioned: 2023-10-06
The Financial Diet is a show about living as a young person who follows their dreams without ruining their future. Hank presented it on the channel in October 2015 as one of his newest video projects.
Told alongside: John: keep Nerdfighters up to date on how the vlogbrothers pre-roll money is spent (2014) · Vlogbrothers pre-roll ads and the Vlogbrothers Creator Grants (2014) · Hank asks viewers to check out Engage by Uplift and The Financial Diet (2015)
About: The Financial Diet
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-26 | proposed | Bank of Nerdfighteria update: Vlogbrothers ad revenue is split in half between the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and a fund sponsoring online educational content such as Physics Girl and The Financial Diet. | Sixteen Parts 00:02:05 |
| 2015-10-02 | launched | Hank announces The Financial Diet, a show about living as a young person following your dreams without ruining your future. | Awkward Stranger Conversations 00:03:36 |
| 2015-11-17 | milestone | Hank woke up in New York City this week (week of 16 November 2015) and filmed an episode of The Financial Diet, which viewers can watch on its YouTube channel. | The Things that People Do (Thoughts from New York City) (Pizzamas Day 7) 00:00:05 |
| 2016-02-05 | milestone | Hank says his team helps some creators get a leg up through shows like The Financial Diet, Healthcare Triage, Sexplanations and Animal Wonders. | Honest YouTube Talk Time 00:01:34 |
| 2017-01-20 | milestone | Matthew says he is working on The Financial Diet. | Behind the Scenes of My Life 00:00:32 |
| 2017-09-22 | milestone | Hank introduces his couch guests as the creators of The Financial Diet, a website and YouTube channel about personal finance. | How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) 00:00:01 |
| 2019-05-14 | milestone | Though aggressively bad at math, John recommends learning personal finance from Gaby Dunn's book Bad with Money, the Planet Money podcast, and the YouTube shows Two Cents and The Financial Diet. | An Open Letter to Professional YouTubers 00:00:58 |
| 2023-10-06 | looked back | Hank names past grant recipients: Alexis Nikole, Answer in Progress, The Financial Diet, Wendover Productions, Real Engineering, and Kurzgesagt in the first year. | I Quit 00:07:20 |
What is said about it
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- 2015-10-02 · Awkward Stranger Conversations — announcement: Hank announces two of 'our newest video project things': Engage by Uplift, on abuse and sex in virtual spaces, and The Financial Diet, on living well young without ruining your future. — 00:03:18